Brian Quinion wrote: >> Should we investigate buying aerial photography for some of these un-loved >> places which would allow us the capture the base road structure and >> land-usage prior to any actual visit and speed things up a lot? The >> photography that Mikel and eye have been sorting out for Gaza Strip is >> costing $11 (£7.50) per sq km for 2 meter accuracy, 1 month old colour >> images (with the associated rights to derived mapping from them). >> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Palestine_Gaza >> > > Please, please NO! > +1 Please don't waste resources on an area in the UK that can comfortably mapped on the ground. Aerial photos of a war zone is a completely different thing where drawing maps on the ground is dangerous. I'm not very likely to come across unexploded ordnance in Grimsby.
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